Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These masks were rather less elaborate than the ones in the workroom . |
| 2 | For Perrier the sale of soft drinks have become vastly less important than the revenue from bottled water . |
| 3 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 4 | The road leading to the station is called avenue Franklin Roosevelt , though the reality is a little less grand than the name . |
| 5 | The amount that is actually being re-used is perhaps rather larger than the public realises : PWMI estimates that 7.6 per cent of the EC 's total plastic waste of 10.7m tonnes is recycled , while the calorific value of a further 12.8 per cent is recovered by using waste as fuel . |
| 6 | We are , he suggests , much less economically permissive than the Victorians , constraining business enterprise , terms and conditions of employment , advertising and so on , whilst morally and sexually becoming less restrictive . |
| 7 | This is much less subtle than the characterization of strategy given in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice , and is consistent with a simplification of the concept of the object . |
| 8 | As both W. G. Hoskins and W. E. Tate have shown , the English village as we know it is in its essentials a product of developments not much less recent than the growth of industrial towns and cities . |
| 9 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 10 | Litter from battery hen farms is unsuitable for the plants and though turkey litter was tried last Christmas it proved much less successful than the chicken fuel . |
| 11 | The structure illustrated in ( c ) , where the agent is specified in a passive clause , is much less frequent than the structure illustrated in ( b ) , where the agent is left unspecified . |
| 12 | Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype . |
| 13 | They are therefore much less resistant than the techniques introduced in this chapter . |
| 14 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 15 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 16 | She writes : ‘ The continued running of such a business is much less satisfying than the creation and setting up of it ’ , so now that it is sold her next challenge is the restoration of an ‘ old Montgomeryshire half-timbered gentleman 's residence and its apothecary 's herb-garden , dating from 1720 … |
| 17 | Evidence to support this speculation is available from countries such as japan where the gender imbalance is much less marked than the countries of western Europe . |
| 18 | They seemed so much less menacing than the crows that pecked and fought in the newly harvested fields at home . |
| 19 | Yet the statements of attainment are in most cases much less detailed than the sequences of behavioural objectives in use in many special schools . |
| 20 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 21 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 22 | The new breakfast news station is expected to be similar in style to the TV-am format and much less formal than the BBC 's rigid Breakfast News show . |
| 23 | Leonora made her bed then collected her cup and started downstairs , deeply thankful that she felt so much better than the day before . |
| 24 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 25 | things to people 's teeth and people 's teeth today are so much better than the past . |
| 26 | I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road . |
| 27 | Bob Dwyer , Australia 's coach , watched his side being demolished and tried to explain why Fiji were so much better than the world champions at sevens in contrast to their 15-a-side form . |
| 28 | I mean that is so simple to do and such a , so much better than the WordPerfect setup which |
| 29 | Why did we do so much better than the pundits and opinion polls predicted ? |
| 30 | Funny , that ; one 's so much taller than the other . |